Criminal Prosecution, Criminal Liability, Corporate Liability

Corporate Criminal Responsibility Set for Reform in the UK: The Crime and Policing Bill

DLA Piper on 7/16/2025

Corporate criminal responsibility in the UK is poised for further reform as the Crime and Policing Bill 2025 (CPB) advances through Parliament. Currently through the House of Commons, and now in the House of Lords, the...more

Why Corporates Are Now More Likely to Face Criminal Prosecution for the Actions of Their Employees

K&L Gates LLP on 11/21/2023

Significant Expansion to Corporate Criminal Liability Becomes Law in the United Kingdom - On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the Act) became law. Under the Act, corporations will become...more

Further Significant Reform of UK Corporate Criminal Liability

WilmerHale on 6/21/2023

On June 15, 2023, the UK Government announced that it would seek to introduce the biggest reform of corporate criminal liability in England and Wales for more than 50 years. ...more

Prosecuting Corporations that Benefit Financially from Human Trafficking

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 7/25/2019

As forced labor and sex trafficking prosecutions steadily increase, corporations may be exposed to criminal and civil corporate liability. The U.S. Department of Justice and state law enforcement are expected to...more

Opioids, Healthcare Enforcement, and Increased Scrutiny of Corporate Conduct for Criminal Prosecution

Jackson Walker on 5/8/2019

The national opioid epidemic is almost unprecedented in every conceivable way—its catastrophic death toll, its broad effect on a wide swath of this country’s population, its rapid escalation (which is alleged to have been...more

UK Jury Verdict Clarifies “Adequate Procedures” Under UK Bribery Act

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 3/13/2018

In an important decision given on February 21, 2018, a jury in English court proceedings has considered for the first time what “adequate procedures” should be for the purpose of a defense to the corporate offense of failing...more